Amtrak fails to resume full service at Penn Station amid cancellations, delays

Two tracks used by NJ Transit were also out of commission early Friday, causing modest delays. (Sam Costanza/for New York Daily News)

Amtrak's promise to resume full service at Penn Station fell short Friday morning amid several cancellations and delays.

Amtrak, which controls the tracks used by New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road, announced just before 8 a.m. that all of them were up and running for the first time in four days.

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But it was already too late.

The Long Island Rail Road had by then already canceled 10 rush-hour trains into Manhattan and terminated four others at stations in Queens.

The LIRR didn't mince words in a "service alert" to its passengers.

"Because Amtrak crews did not finish track repairs by 4 a.m. as promised and they didn't grant access to tracks overnight so Long Island Rail Road could pre-position trains, LIRR is forced to cancel 10 trains," it said.

Two tracks used by NJ Transit were also out of commission early Friday, causing modest delays.

Rail riders took to social media to express their frustration a day after Amtrak President Wick Moorman vowed to have the system operating at full tilt.

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The transit headaches prompted the MTA and NJ Transit to publicly rail against Amtrak.

Several riders said the Friday morning commute was still better than it had been throughout the week.